We simply need to change our basic economic systems to accommodate the changes in the world. Technology works! That should not be a surprise to anyone but people do not look at what technology is. All technology is designed to replace human labor. The better the technology the more human work it replaces. Often nobody even notices the displacement and tribulations of workers when it it occurs. The greatest example is what happened to the one girl office when the cell phones became common. Tradesmen always had to have a wife or girl in the "office" as they bid jobs in the field. The cell phone changed that. No longer was a girl required to take messages and deal with customers. Then bookkeeping software became convenient and all of a sudden the last excuse for having that girl vanished. The number of female office workers declined and probably in the millions. Yet the public never noticed.
Business will continue even with a declining nation until total collapse occurs. The better choice is to simply pay people decent pay checks not to work. That way people will support the businesses that they enjoy or need and those businesses will pay taxes to support the idled workers. Although this sounds over the edge it becomes a lot more reasonable when one realizes that almost all human jobs will soon vanish and be absorbed by technology. The 3D printing development alone is enough to collapse the economy of industrialized nations. Printing a nice home in 24 hours can actually be done.
The point was that if one lives long enough cancer is a certainty. Obviously we do not know what the cancer rates would look like for people over 140 years old.
However it also seems to me that changing the immune system or altering ones genes to combat disease is becoming more of a reality these days. So if we must complain or be in fear perhaps the real issue is not a cure but a fast and easy cure or arrest of cancer that does not involve pain, fear, loss of teeth or hair or causing one to be bed ridden or suffer large doses of radiation or harsh medications. If we can get cancer to be like a mild headache where we just casually take an over the counter pill to knock it out just like we would take an aspirin today then a cure becomes an unimportant goal. So far cancer seems to be, all to often, a nightmare of pain, misery, expense and losses. And i have already lost many good friends and family to creepy, nasty, cancer. Even my little fifth grade sweetheart went from breast cancer and a girl I went steady with in seventh grade is dead of breast cancer. The list is too damned long.
Actually large companies will soon gain control of almost all farms. By using large data crunching along with highly automated farm equipment individual plants can be fed and watered precisely as needed. That will give high tech farms such an economic advantage that farmers who choose more traditional farming methods will not be able to compete in selling their crops. The end result is that big business will own a percentage of the income from almost every farm in existence and in the long term as well. Imagine fertilizer, water and pesticides custom made for each plant daily and the yield that a farm could get per acre.
Supposedly in the US we elect our leaders. We also decide the degree of taxation and which agencies will receive more or less tax dollars. So what meaning does a vote have when much of government is covert? Is our military adequate? Does our military receive enough funding? I have no clue because much of our military is top secret. Without knowing whether we are superior in strike and defend ability how do I decide who should be president? Is the NSA over or under funded? How can I know? Should I be voting for hawks or doves?
Clearly the ability of government to have secrets wipes out democracy . So I must belive that anyone who releases secrets is a hero in that our own government may well be more dangerous than any foreign power.
I think the Bernie's intention was to make congress aware that the very laws they were passing also allowed their own rights to be lessened. I would bet that the NSA and others spy more on members of congress and the judiciary than they do of almost all other citizens. For example a corrupted or coerced judge could easily keep a serious terrorist from being convicted. These judges could even over ride a jury and declare a person not guilty locking them out of any future trials. Some of the too big to fail boys may have owned quite a few people in the legal channels.
Some debit cards offer a guarantee of loss prevention. Chase issues such cards. Since I got used to using a debit card I rarely handle any cash at all. Most months I have less than $5. in cash for the entire month. It is rare that I go anywhere that won't accept my Chase Visa debit card.
Treat robot product liability just as you treat auto liability. The only difference might be in that auto insurance usually does not really pay for all the harm that is done. In my state if you have a 10K cap on bodily injury that normally is absolute even if the person you injure will be be basket case for decades and never able to work a day in his or her life. So other than making caps on pay outs illegal traditional insurance on machines should fit robots nicely.
Seriously individual nuts who wipe out a few innocent people are not mass murderers. They also can not be detected as in some cases the violence is spontanous and not in consultation with others. If a man goes off the deep end because he catches his wife cheating how could any agency ever know that within that same hour the bitter man will lash out and shoot up a school or a store or whatever? Some violence will always be with us. On the other hand we do have some ability to detect and prevent groups of people forming a conspiracy that involves international travel and an attempt to kill thousands of people. What the public can not easily judge is how many 9/11 type attacks we could survive and still be a nation. i suspect that we could take quite afew attacks. Look at the suffering in England during WWII. Those folks got bombed for years and cities like London stayed in tact or were rebuilt. The US is not so weak that we can't take a few punches and remain standing.
A strong case can be made that we all have a moral obligation to break copyright and patent laws. The term private has been stolen and distorted. That which is private is held back, kept secret and not published or broadcast or performed in public. The trick that has been pulled is to create confusion in weak minds by combining the word private and property to form an irrational concept. America had a built in concept that forbids nobel ownership or nobel use. In other words all things can to some degree be regulated and shared if they touch the public space in any way. Before cars we had laws that controlled how a horse might be used. Traditionally laws even regulate where a man might step and they still do. But none of these notions touch the issue of art, literature or commercial products put in play before or among the public. Copyright is a twisting and perversion of our legal and moral heritage. Perhaps society has been overly tolerant of such laws.
I wonder if the lone nut job is not more of a menace that organized terrorists. People like the Unabomber are notoriously disconnected from the system. And people that just run in a building and start blasting are usually isolated souls as well. We are already at the point at which we can no longer afford to catch criminals. The isolated psycopath or sociopath may be the ultimate threat to national security. And these folks are probably not swept up with intensive data gathering. Being able to catch them after the fact is not winning the game at all. And what is worse is that snagging them before the act still costs us all a fortune. As far as economic survival goes we would probably be better off to allow terrorists to wipe out a huge building or two every year and a couple of planes as well as opposed to the expense of trying to prevent such idiotic acts. Even trivial crime when considered in total as to its effect is enough to destroy a nation in time. So now we have the paradox of being able to ctach the more socially active terrorists but dread the expenses of catching and keeping them in the system. It is a no win in every direction.
One does not even need a rifle to do damage to the grid. And it would be very difficult to secure the lines and sub stations. Trains have the same problem. There is so much track out there and so many rail bridges that fanatics could cause a lot of harm. And we do have domestic nuts as well as foreign nuts who really want to harm us. At least with foreign nations directing evil acts we can extract revenge but with home grown idiots it is very expensive and difficult to catch them. The Unabomber and Charley Manson leap to mind. Think of the millions spent just on those two cases and then think if we had just 1,000 similar types all active at the same time what expenses we would be subjected to. And think about long term expenses as well. Reagrdless of how one feels about the Vietnam war the expenses from that war just keep adding up. Charley Manson still costs at least 35K a year to maintain and as he is getting older his upkeep will get larger and larger. Sirhan Sirhan presents the same problem. The expenses are like a fire that seems to burn for a century or so. We can only carry so much of a load beofre all hell breaks loose.
You are right! It is just so much better to give convicts a really hard time with boredom and forced mental illness from harsh confinement. That way when they are released they will be so full of love that they will be a real blessing to society. WAKE UP!
I wonder if he should ever have been in prison in the first place. Now he will have to live abroad or face about ten years of additional cell time. And we should all give a hoot. If you add up the cell time expected, the cost of trials and catching him this guy will devour $500,000 at a minimum in tax dollars. As a tax payer i don't like paying for this type of punishment. Figure that we have at least 50,000 people in the prisons right now who really don't pose much of a threat to anyone. You know, a million here, a million there and pretty soon we are talking about big bucks.
I certainly hope that almost no one believes any use of torture is ever justified. The same applies to our prison system which tortures people with boredom and want. What do we say when we find, time after time, innocent men who have been locked down for decades and subjected to that nonsense? Is one million dollars a year enough to pay back for the wrong done to those innocent people?
So I am standing in this honey pot eager to chat. Message me! You know just how safe it is. There can be no greater way to catch criminals than issuing privacy products. Trust me. This is just oh so safe.
Maybe some consideration could be given to conditions other than factories closing in Michigan. First the rust belt states were fixated on growth. Growth is an unusually dangerous idea in the first place. New York city has the same nightmare. Growth requires attracting a huge population in order to have an employee pool. During boom times that works out just dandy. But when times get slow that huge population can no longer live like human beings and all kinds of physical and social decay takes place. Making it worse conservative personalities always want to return to the social attitudes that existed when growth was about to bloom. That assures misery and failure. For example Detroit lost sales of cars so they wanted to double up. Make a bigger, heavier car with more flash and supposed style and use every gimmick known to man to sell the beast. No new thinking going on there at all. Then they try propaganda and spew nonsense about the US building the only quality cars. Meanwhile Japan and others build efficient, smaller cars, that cost less to own and operate and gradually the American car market went down the tubes. New thinking and letting go of the past are vital for success and survival as well.
We need laws that disallow any land used for food crops to ever be used for fuel crops. Also we need laws that disallow food items to be used to make fuel. Corn,rice,potatoes, wheat, grapes and more are used to make ethanol and that drives food prices up severely. This needs to be stopped. Our amber waves of grain should not end up in a gas tank.
Planting some bamboo forests would be one way to take some carbon dioxide out of circulation. After bamboo grows for about five years it no longer sequesters carbon dioxide and must be harvested but bamboo is a useful product and has value. Yet we have no nation wide effort to plant bamboo forests.
I do think that the theme music behind the Miami Vice tv series was a turning point for synthetic music. At that point some synthetic music began to be true art. Performing musical artist have been in a more than challenging shifting sand since the microphone and radio destroyed the traditional industry. There was a point in the 1970s that electric guitars seemed to usurp the entire musical universe. Right now the brass bands seem to be making a comeback but we have a huge flaw. The loss of Tin Pan Alley culture and the lack of availability of good sheet music is hurting us bad. When was the last time you heard Dixie Land music ? Some of these losses are so serious that our cultural history is being lost. Free radio on the net was making music accessible but the law has chocked net radio so severely that it is now not much of a resource. And trying to find sheet music for early jazz is a disaster as well.
As people go without jobs so few are aware that automation and robotics are a huge part of the issue. I am all for robots but we absolutely must take care of humans as they are economically displaced. It is already happening and not one in one hundred Americans are aware of it. Worse yet you can bet that China and India will exploit robotics to replace even their low paid workers meaning that US labor will no be forced to compete with Chinese workers. But US robots will be forced to compete with Chinese robots.
To develop a weapon to be used in case of war is one thing. To set it loose upon the US when no war exists would make no sense at all. China is so heavily invested in the US that anything that harms the US economy would harm China severely. It is far more likely that some mad nation run by strange ideology such as Iran would attempt such nonsense. North Korea is another jackpot of insanity. I would not be shocked that China might roll over N.Korea if China thought the US was to be harmed.
However the US is far more likely to self destruct than to be taken apart by an enemy. Greed and corporate corruption are the greatest threat to US national security.
Suicides should not be considered a gun issue. I do not judge people who commit suicide nor do I think it is always wrong and I am happy that they use a gun to do the job. That is far better than crushing passers by when they leap off a building or die by deliberately crashing their cars. I do think it would be nicer if suicides were in the front lawn rather than in the home as it screws up the decor so badly.
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We simply need to change our basic economic systems to accommodate the changes in the world. Technology works! That should not be a surprise to anyone but people do not look at what technology is. All technology is designed to replace human labor. The better the technology the more human work it replaces. Often nobody even notices the displacement and tribulations of workers when it it occurs. The greatest example is what happened to the one girl office when the cell phones became common. Tradesmen always had to have a wife or girl in the "office" as they bid jobs in the field. The cell phone changed that. No longer was a girl required to take messages and deal with customers. Then bookkeeping software became convenient and all of a sudden the last excuse for having that girl vanished. The number of female office workers declined and probably in the millions. Yet the public never noticed. Business will continue even with a declining nation until total collapse occurs. The better choice is to simply pay people decent pay checks not to work. That way people will support the businesses that they enjoy or need and those businesses will pay taxes to support the idled workers. Although this sounds over the edge it becomes a lot more reasonable when one realizes that almost all human jobs will soon vanish and be absorbed by technology. The 3D printing development alone is enough to collapse the economy of industrialized nations. Printing a nice home in 24 hours can actually be done.
The point was that if one lives long enough cancer is a certainty. Obviously we do not know what the cancer rates would look like for people over 140 years old. However it also seems to me that changing the immune system or altering ones genes to combat disease is becoming more of a reality these days. So if we must complain or be in fear perhaps the real issue is not a cure but a fast and easy cure or arrest of cancer that does not involve pain, fear, loss of teeth or hair or causing one to be bed ridden or suffer large doses of radiation or harsh medications. If we can get cancer to be like a mild headache where we just casually take an over the counter pill to knock it out just like we would take an aspirin today then a cure becomes an unimportant goal. So far cancer seems to be, all to often, a nightmare of pain, misery, expense and losses. And i have already lost many good friends and family to creepy, nasty, cancer. Even my little fifth grade sweetheart went from breast cancer and a girl I went steady with in seventh grade is dead of breast cancer. The list is too damned long.
Actually large companies will soon gain control of almost all farms. By using large data crunching along with highly automated farm equipment individual plants can be fed and watered precisely as needed. That will give high tech farms such an economic advantage that farmers who choose more traditional farming methods will not be able to compete in selling their crops. The end result is that big business will own a percentage of the income from almost every farm in existence and in the long term as well. Imagine fertilizer, water and pesticides custom made for each plant daily and the yield that a farm could get per acre.
You are right. republicans are quite a way from being up to the level of dope addled hippies.
Supposedly in the US we elect our leaders. We also decide the degree of taxation and which agencies will receive more or less tax dollars. So what meaning does a vote have when much of government is covert? Is our military adequate? Does our military receive enough funding? I have no clue because much of our military is top secret. Without knowing whether we are superior in strike and defend ability how do I decide who should be president? Is the NSA over or under funded? How can I know? Should I be voting for hawks or doves? Clearly the ability of government to have secrets wipes out democracy . So I must belive that anyone who releases secrets is a hero in that our own government may well be more dangerous than any foreign power.
I think the Bernie's intention was to make congress aware that the very laws they were passing also allowed their own rights to be lessened. I would bet that the NSA and others spy more on members of congress and the judiciary than they do of almost all other citizens. For example a corrupted or coerced judge could easily keep a serious terrorist from being convicted. These judges could even over ride a jury and declare a person not guilty locking them out of any future trials. Some of the too big to fail boys may have owned quite a few people in the legal channels.
Some debit cards offer a guarantee of loss prevention. Chase issues such cards. Since I got used to using a debit card I rarely handle any cash at all. Most months I have less than $5. in cash for the entire month. It is rare that I go anywhere that won't accept my Chase Visa debit card.
Treat robot product liability just as you treat auto liability. The only difference might be in that auto insurance usually does not really pay for all the harm that is done. In my state if you have a 10K cap on bodily injury that normally is absolute even if the person you injure will be be basket case for decades and never able to work a day in his or her life. So other than making caps on pay outs illegal traditional insurance on machines should fit robots nicely.
Seriously individual nuts who wipe out a few innocent people are not mass murderers. They also can not be detected as in some cases the violence is spontanous and not in consultation with others. If a man goes off the deep end because he catches his wife cheating how could any agency ever know that within that same hour the bitter man will lash out and shoot up a school or a store or whatever? Some violence will always be with us. On the other hand we do have some ability to detect and prevent groups of people forming a conspiracy that involves international travel and an attempt to kill thousands of people. What the public can not easily judge is how many 9/11 type attacks we could survive and still be a nation. i suspect that we could take quite afew attacks. Look at the suffering in England during WWII. Those folks got bombed for years and cities like London stayed in tact or were rebuilt. The US is not so weak that we can't take a few punches and remain standing.
All I can see about the children is by the time you gut them and get them clean they really don't cook up any better than pork.
I take it you have an issue with exterminating those not following the one true faith.
A strong case can be made that we all have a moral obligation to break copyright and patent laws. The term private has been stolen and distorted. That which is private is held back, kept secret and not published or broadcast or performed in public. The trick that has been pulled is to create confusion in weak minds by combining the word private and property to form an irrational concept. America had a built in concept that forbids nobel ownership or nobel use. In other words all things can to some degree be regulated and shared if they touch the public space in any way. Before cars we had laws that controlled how a horse might be used. Traditionally laws even regulate where a man might step and they still do. But none of these notions touch the issue of art, literature or commercial products put in play before or among the public. Copyright is a twisting and perversion of our legal and moral heritage. Perhaps society has been overly tolerant of such laws.
I wonder if the lone nut job is not more of a menace that organized terrorists. People like the Unabomber are notoriously disconnected from the system. And people that just run in a building and start blasting are usually isolated souls as well. We are already at the point at which we can no longer afford to catch criminals. The isolated psycopath or sociopath may be the ultimate threat to national security. And these folks are probably not swept up with intensive data gathering. Being able to catch them after the fact is not winning the game at all. And what is worse is that snagging them before the act still costs us all a fortune. As far as economic survival goes we would probably be better off to allow terrorists to wipe out a huge building or two every year and a couple of planes as well as opposed to the expense of trying to prevent such idiotic acts. Even trivial crime when considered in total as to its effect is enough to destroy a nation in time. So now we have the paradox of being able to ctach the more socially active terrorists but dread the expenses of catching and keeping them in the system. It is a no win in every direction.
One does not even need a rifle to do damage to the grid. And it would be very difficult to secure the lines and sub stations. Trains have the same problem. There is so much track out there and so many rail bridges that fanatics could cause a lot of harm. And we do have domestic nuts as well as foreign nuts who really want to harm us. At least with foreign nations directing evil acts we can extract revenge but with home grown idiots it is very expensive and difficult to catch them. The Unabomber and Charley Manson leap to mind. Think of the millions spent just on those two cases and then think if we had just 1,000 similar types all active at the same time what expenses we would be subjected to. And think about long term expenses as well. Reagrdless of how one feels about the Vietnam war the expenses from that war just keep adding up. Charley Manson still costs at least 35K a year to maintain and as he is getting older his upkeep will get larger and larger. Sirhan Sirhan presents the same problem. The expenses are like a fire that seems to burn for a century or so. We can only carry so much of a load beofre all hell breaks loose.
You are right! It is just so much better to give convicts a really hard time with boredom and forced mental illness from harsh confinement. That way when they are released they will be so full of love that they will be a real blessing to society. WAKE UP!
I wonder if he should ever have been in prison in the first place. Now he will have to live abroad or face about ten years of additional cell time. And we should all give a hoot. If you add up the cell time expected, the cost of trials and catching him this guy will devour $500,000 at a minimum in tax dollars. As a tax payer i don't like paying for this type of punishment. Figure that we have at least 50,000 people in the prisons right now who really don't pose much of a threat to anyone. You know, a million here, a million there and pretty soon we are talking about big bucks.
I certainly hope that almost no one believes any use of torture is ever justified. The same applies to our prison system which tortures people with boredom and want. What do we say when we find, time after time, innocent men who have been locked down for decades and subjected to that nonsense? Is one million dollars a year enough to pay back for the wrong done to those innocent people?
So I am standing in this honey pot eager to chat. Message me! You know just how safe it is. There can be no greater way to catch criminals than issuing privacy products. Trust me. This is just oh so safe.
These days bombs from US aircraft tend to fit exactly what they aim at. The real issue is the price of these munitions.
Maybe some consideration could be given to conditions other than factories closing in Michigan. First the rust belt states were fixated on growth. Growth is an unusually dangerous idea in the first place. New York city has the same nightmare. Growth requires attracting a huge population in order to have an employee pool. During boom times that works out just dandy. But when times get slow that huge population can no longer live like human beings and all kinds of physical and social decay takes place. Making it worse conservative personalities always want to return to the social attitudes that existed when growth was about to bloom. That assures misery and failure. For example Detroit lost sales of cars so they wanted to double up. Make a bigger, heavier car with more flash and supposed style and use every gimmick known to man to sell the beast. No new thinking going on there at all. Then they try propaganda and spew nonsense about the US building the only quality cars. Meanwhile Japan and others build efficient, smaller cars, that cost less to own and operate and gradually the American car market went down the tubes. New thinking and letting go of the past are vital for success and survival as well.
We need laws that disallow any land used for food crops to ever be used for fuel crops. Also we need laws that disallow food items to be used to make fuel. Corn,rice,potatoes, wheat, grapes and more are used to make ethanol and that drives food prices up severely. This needs to be stopped. Our amber waves of grain should not end up in a gas tank. Planting some bamboo forests would be one way to take some carbon dioxide out of circulation. After bamboo grows for about five years it no longer sequesters carbon dioxide and must be harvested but bamboo is a useful product and has value. Yet we have no nation wide effort to plant bamboo forests.
I do think that the theme music behind the Miami Vice tv series was a turning point for synthetic music. At that point some synthetic music began to be true art. Performing musical artist have been in a more than challenging shifting sand since the microphone and radio destroyed the traditional industry. There was a point in the 1970s that electric guitars seemed to usurp the entire musical universe. Right now the brass bands seem to be making a comeback but we have a huge flaw. The loss of Tin Pan Alley culture and the lack of availability of good sheet music is hurting us bad. When was the last time you heard Dixie Land music ? Some of these losses are so serious that our cultural history is being lost. Free radio on the net was making music accessible but the law has chocked net radio so severely that it is now not much of a resource. And trying to find sheet music for early jazz is a disaster as well.
As people go without jobs so few are aware that automation and robotics are a huge part of the issue. I am all for robots but we absolutely must take care of humans as they are economically displaced. It is already happening and not one in one hundred Americans are aware of it. Worse yet you can bet that China and India will exploit robotics to replace even their low paid workers meaning that US labor will no be forced to compete with Chinese workers. But US robots will be forced to compete with Chinese robots.
To develop a weapon to be used in case of war is one thing. To set it loose upon the US when no war exists would make no sense at all. China is so heavily invested in the US that anything that harms the US economy would harm China severely. It is far more likely that some mad nation run by strange ideology such as Iran would attempt such nonsense. North Korea is another jackpot of insanity. I would not be shocked that China might roll over N.Korea if China thought the US was to be harmed. However the US is far more likely to self destruct than to be taken apart by an enemy. Greed and corporate corruption are the greatest threat to US national security.
Suicides should not be considered a gun issue. I do not judge people who commit suicide nor do I think it is always wrong and I am happy that they use a gun to do the job. That is far better than crushing passers by when they leap off a building or die by deliberately crashing their cars. I do think it would be nicer if suicides were in the front lawn rather than in the home as it screws up the decor so badly.